Fearne Cotton’s mum does know best

Radio presenter and expectant mum
Fearne Cotton claims her mum has given her just one piece of advice
in all the nine months that she has been pregnant.

That one piece of advice is ‘as soon as
your baby wakes up…put your make-up on’.

Now my first reaction was well that’s
just fantastic. Nothing like leaving your daughter in the lurch when
it comes to any kind of useful information on how to look after a
baby when it comes.

But then after mulling it over for a
minute or two and letting my thoughts wander back to when I first
came home from the hospital and what was important to me in those few
weeks, I started to see the sense in what Fearne’s mother had
actually said.

It is very easy to see this kind of
thing as totally vain and unimportant but it’s not just about that.

On a practical level, and I have
touched on this in my blog before, if you don’t actually get in there
in the morning and get yourself ready for the day, quite frankly you
are never going to get round to it.

Then there is the symbolic nature of
making yourself feel and look nice. Psychologically I found that if I
spent too many days just slobbing around the house without getting
dressed and only looking at the water coming out of the shower rather
than spending any decent time under it, I found my whole sense of
well-being was gone. In turn the tiredness and general below par
feeling that a tiny baby can unfortunately bring about in a new
parent gets to you even more.

If however, you have managed to make
yourself look nice it can drag up your whole mood a few notches.

In the run up to giving birth you find
as a first-time parent you are bombarded with information from a
whole host of sources and whilst it is invaluable to be armed with
all this ‘theory’ when it comes to the moment when you step through
your front door for the first time with your newborn in your arms and
realise you no longer have midwives on hand to help, it can be the
most daunting thing in the world and you are going to have to find
out a lot of the practical stuff for yourself all over again ‘on the
job’ so to speak.

Therefore I see what Fearne’s mum is
doing. There is no point telling her daughter the ins and outs of
feeding, nappy changing and nap times. This will all go out of her
head anyway at three in the morning when her baby won’t stop crying.

Instead she has given Fearne a piece of
information which will be completely impossible to act out initially
but will set her in good stead a few days in, ensuring she gets back
to feeling the best she can possibly feel in herself. It is actually
far more insightful and layered a piece of guidance than simply
making sure you get your lipstick on in the morning. Good on Fearne’s
mum.

In fact on pro-essay-writer.com page 3 he asserts that writers use punctuation to get a message across to the reader in a particular way


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